Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2015-03-30

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libgcrypt-1.6.3

Introduction to libgcrypt

The libgcrypt package contains a
general purpose crypto library based on the code used in
GnuPG. The library provides a high
level interface to cryptographic building blocks using an
extendable and flexible API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7
platform.

libgcrypt Dependencies

Required

Optional

Installation of libgcrypt

Install libgcrypt by running the
following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

Only info
documentation is shipped in the package tarball. If you wish to
build alternate formats of the documentation, (you must have
texlive-20140525 installed to build
the PDF and PostScript documentation), then issue the following
commands: